Hilah’s Texas Kitchen – BBQ Beef Ribs

It’s here! Dudes, it’s finally here! I’m so excited! You know how when you’ve worked on something really hard and you really want to be done so you can show people and then you get done and it’s time to show the people and you’re JUST SO EXCITED?!?!

That’s how I am right now!

Barrett Black and me rubbing down some ribs and crackin’ wise

For the inaugural episode of Hilah’s Texas Kitchen, we went to Lockhart — known as the Barbecue Capital of Texas — to visit Black’s Barbecue, the oldest barbecue restaurant continuously run by the same family. That’s a difficult claim to fame to enunciate clearly, as you’ll see in the video. I interviewed Barrett Black, the fourth generation of the Black family to have their hands in the bbq biz. He showed me the secrets behind how they make their HUGE bbq beef ribs (well, not all the secrets, but enough) and we did a little sightseeing in Lockhart.

Black’s BBQ Beef Ribs

The second part of the video, I show you how to cook a fair facsimile of their bbq beef ribs at home, without a smoker! You’ll need to get some “beef back ribs” to do it proper. They’re a little hard to find. If you’re lucky enough to live in a nice town with an actual butcher shop, start there. My beloved Austin has no proper butcher shop, so I ordered mine from a grass-fed beef ranch I know of. Beef back ribs are cut anywhere from 8 to 12 inches long (hey-oh!) and come in racks of 3 or 4 ribs. The total weight of a rack of beef back ribs, then, is at least 3-4 pounds. The ones I used were on the small side for back ribs — just about a pound a rib — while the ones that Black’s Barbecue orders are more like 2 pounds per rib. If you find enormous ones like that, increase the cooking time by an hour I’d guess.

Hello hilah, I tried cooking the pork ribs and let them cook for a couple of hours and they tasted okay. I dont think anything will come close to the taste of this ribs recipe. Thank you I will be the talk of the party.

Hi, I’m Hilah!

I create short-form, educational, and occasionally hilarious cooking videos geared towards beginner and intermediate cooks, as well as people who are just looking for simple, low-cost recipes. Everything is made from scratch, people! Read More…